Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults. After growing up on a dairy farm, everything in life seemed easy

People enjoy our meat and our poultry, as I do as a consumer.

The goal is to normalize trade relations based on sound science and consumer protection.

On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture.

When one cow was found with BSE in 2003, many of our trading partners closed their borders to our beef.

We asked ourselves and the world to base decisions on good science, and I really believe the United States can be the leader in delivering that message to our international trading partners.

In beef trade issues, we base our decisions upon science.